Pulling for all their worth, three AC44C6Ms lug NS train 202 past the N&W Color Position Light signals at CP Troutville on the Roanoke District.

With 217 loads of coal for Newport News on the drawbar, C112 makes its way East at Balcony Falls minutes after the sun has crested over the tops of the mountains making for a golden lit shot.

A very uncommon sight for 2023, a CSX SD50 leads Southbound M693 down the Clinchfield shortly after sunset passing the signals at Ashford.

Fresh from the paint booth in Altoona, PA, the Reading heritage unit shoves NS 27A under the Southern signal bridge at Lowell in the dead of the night.

Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western heritage unit appears briefly between the trees on the upper part of the historic Williams Loop, located near Spring Garden, California. In a few moments it... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

CSX 4419 leads L422 by the CPL's at MP 97 on the Indiana Sub.

CSX 4419 leads L422 through the S curve and intermediate CPLs at MP 109.5 on the Indiana Sub.

The power for L422 pokes out the east end of the siding at Mitchell where they will back onto their train on the main and blast off.

The 1960 line change between Williams and Crookton, AZ was a significant event in expediting traffic. The steep grades and sharp curves of the old route via Ash Fork were replaced with a high spee... (more)

CB&Q 9911A, the only remaining E-5A diesel, leads the Nebraska Zephyr trainset onto the Illinois Railway Museum's mainline during the annual Diesel Days event.

The Southwest Chief leaves Wagon Mound, New Mexico behind and splits the semaphore signals at Levy.

BNSF 4276 highballs through Choate, passing some old searchlight signals guarding the west switch at Choate.

Searching. Led by foreign power, the daily 242 container train passes a single-aspect searchlight, originally of Seaboard origin and provided to NS as part of the railroad reorganization i... (more)

It won't be long before the last semaphore signals are removed from Levy and Wagon Mound, New Mexico. These sentinels of the Southwest Chief are being replaced for conventional signal poles.